(A) Consistent with IC 36-9-2-10 and other applicable statutes, the city hereby exercises its power to establish, maintain, control, and regulate the taking of water, or causing or permitting water to escape, from a watercourse both inside and within ten miles of the city’s municipal limits; provided, however, that the regulations within this section will not apply inside the corporate limits of other existing cities or towns.
(B) No water shall be taken, or caused or permitted to escape, from a watercourse to be used for retail, wholesale, or other mass distribution of water, unless such distribution is conducted by or on behalf of the city.
(C) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the taking of water from a watercourse for reasonable personal use (i.e., residential type water wells).
(D) WATERCOURSES shall include lakes, rivers, streams, groundwater, aquifers, and/or any other body of water whether above or below ground.
(Ord. 5346, passed 2-20-12)
Cross-reference:
Watercourse protection from pollution, see § 54.35